Sr. Cloud Security Engineer

Title: Sr. Cloud Security Engineer

Location : 5 days onsite Ft. Lauderdale FL area

Type: 6 month contract to hire

Notes

Design, implement, and continuously harden secure landing zones, tenant baselines, and guardrails across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — including hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity patterns

Develop and maintain cloud security standards, reference patterns, and secure-by-default blueprints that apply consistently across providers, not just one vendor’s stack

Lead security reviews and risk assessments for new cloud workloads, migrations, and modernization initiatives, providing actionable remediation guidance to engineering teams

5+ years of experience across cloud engineering, cloud security, and cybersecurity engineering in enterprise environments

Genuine multi-cloud expertise: expert-level, hands-on experience in at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) and strong working proficiency across the others, including exposure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with the ability to translate security concepts fluently between providers rather than defaulting to a single vendor’s toolset

Cloud identity depth across providers: hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM / Identity Center, Google Cloud IAM, and/or OCI IAM federation, MFA, conditional and context-aware access, privileged access, and workload/non-human identity

Practical experience applying AI/ML or large language models to cloud data analysis, detection, triage, or automation

Experience designing and securing cloud architectures, hybrid environments, and cloud networking, VNets, VPCs, VCNs, VPNs, private connectivity, firewalls, and zero-trust patterns, on more than one platform

Translate cloud security requirements and architecture into deployed, automated controls that operate reliably across heterogeneous platforms, without creating friction for engineering teams

Operate as a hands-on engineer who personally builds, configures, tests, and ships high-quality guardrails, automation, and integrations, measuring success in problems solved, not tickets closed

Tools: Microsoft Purview, SaaS security posture management, Zscaler (CASB/DLP), Trellix Helix, Cribl, Torq, Rapid7, Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, OPA, CI/CD security (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps),Python, PowerShell, Terraform HCL, Bash and more